Damhnait Monaghan 🇨🇦🇮🇪

Damhnait Monaghan 🇨🇦🇮🇪

@downith.bsky.social

Writer|Namesplainer|2025 Commonwealth Short Story Prize shortlist|2022 Winner Rakuten Kobo Emerging Writer|2020 Winner Saboteur Best Novella| Agent: Hilary McMahon @ Westwood Creative Artists www.damhnaitmonaghan.com

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Damhnait Monaghan 🇨🇦🇮🇪
@downith.bsky.social

Been a while! Moved to Canada (still unpacking) forgot my password, life stuff, etc, etc But… subbed two flash in the last month & shortlisted in the 2025 Commonwealth Short Story Prize after a solid year of no, nope, nada #persist Commonwealth story below. If you read it, I hope you love it.

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Anti-Heroin Chic
@antiheroinchic.bsky.social

Hello friends, our submissions have been running a little low. With a little under 3 weeks left before submissions close, if you could help us to spread the word it would be so greatly appreciated. All categories are open but we especially need more artwork and photography. heroinchic.weebly.com

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Fictive Dream
@fictivedream.bsky.social

ICYMI we're open for submissions of contemporary #microfiction #submissionsopen #callforsubmissions. Please click on the link below for our guidelines. We're look forward to reading your words...

fictivedream.comSubmission GuidelinesWe publish short stories, including translations, of up to 2,500 words that have not previously appeared elsewhere, either in print or online (including your own blog and social media). We offer th…

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Sara Hills
@sarahillswrites.bsky.social

For anyone still on the fence or needing a deadline to make a decision (hello, I see you 😘), we have a few full-weekend and single-day places left. Bookings close end of day Friday 10th July. The weather looks great for camping if you want to bring a tent or caravan. @flashficfestuk.bsky.social ❤️🌞

flashficfestuk.bsky.social@flashficfestuk.bsky.social

Weather forecast for the festival 17 -19 July in Bristol We really don’t mind occasional drizzle and not too hot!

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Jordan Kurella De Vil
@jordankurella.com

me writing a piece of fiction: "I cannot use an exclamation mark as the whole thing will sound unhinged." me writing an email: "Do you! Want! To send me! The File! I would really! Like! The file!"

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flashficfestuk.bsky.social
@flashficfestuk.bsky.social

It will be available at the festival and given to contributors there too

bathflashaward.bsky.social@bathflashaward.bsky.social

Here It is at last — How to Fold a World Map the 2025 BFFA anthology containing stories from the 3 2025 awards Copies will be posted to contributors soon. Thanks everyone for your patience www.bathflashfictionaward.com/2026/06/bath...

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Kathy Fish
@kathyfish.bsky.social

Crossing my fingers re: the weather. This photo makes me so happy and excited though! Can't wait to see everyone again! 💙

flashficfestuk.bsky.social@flashficfestuk.bsky.social

Fingers crossed for cooler weather at the festival weekend! In the meantime, here’s a showcase of 2 books for sale in the fest bookshop (picture last year) The Neverlands by @downith.bsky.social & Salt City Runaway by @gilloshaughnessy.bsky. www.flashfictionfestival.com/two-more-boo...

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Kathy Fish
@kathyfish.bsky.social

SO GOOD! 💙

V. Press@vpresslit.bsky.social

“[…] a family epic in flash form, masterfully and movingly distilled, both devastating and hopeful.” Kathy Fish on The Neverlands by Damhnait Monaghan @downith.bsky.social vpresspoetry.blogspot.com/p/the-neverl...

Damhnait Monaghan 🇨🇦🇮🇪
@downith.bsky.social

❤️❤️❤️

Ali McGrane@alimcg.bsky.social

Sorry to add another! 😘 But I just spotted The Neverlands by Damhnait Monaghan @downith.bsky.social is being reprinted at V. Press. A totally gorgeous book vpresspoetry.blogspot.com/p/the-neverl...

vpresspoetry.blogspot.comThe Neverlands (bound copy)“ The Neverlands , a virtuoso mosaic of microfictions by Damhnait Monaghan, tells the story of Nuala, a child caught in the crossfire of her...
Damhnait Monaghan 🇨🇦🇮🇪
@downith.bsky.social

Late to the party but happy to be floating in the flood with my flash ‘Post Partum” 🫖🫖🫖🫖🫖

National Flash Fiction Day@natflashfictionday.bsky.social

FlashFlood: 'Post Partum' by Damhnait Monaghan #nffd2026

dlvr.it'Post Partum' by Damhnait MonaghanTea keeps me going when the baby’s screaming and her brother’s waking up every goddamn morning at four a.m. and the health visitor says some children are larks and some are owls and I want to ask her why I have one of each and yes I know that the owl hoots all night because of colic but anyone can tell you that colic is not a hoot, not at all, not at one a.m. or two a.m. or three a.m. and did I mention the lark gets up at four a.m.? So I drink tea. But when my little lark flits into the kitchen and reaches high high up to the counter and tugs and tugs at the corner of the newspaper, he doesn’t know I put my tea on the paper, far far out of reach like the health visitor said so I could rock and rock and rock the colic. So it’s tea that makes my lark scream, hot tea, made in the mug because who has time for a teapot, black tea with no cooling milk, so it’s tea that burns, tea that sluices his skin clean off while he stands and screams and I run and cry and grab him and the phone and then I scream Tea! Tea! when they ask what’s the nature of my emergency. And later, in the hospital when he’s sedated and wrapped in bandages and after the questions from the social worker satisfy her that it’s an accident and me that I’m incompetent, and my baby owl is quiet and nursing, it’s tea that I want and yes I will drink it while my owl feeds because tea keeps me going and did you ever notice how tea is so close to tears? I never knew that until now. --- Damhnait Monaghan is a Canadian writer. Her story ‘Nuala Nu’ was short-listed in the 2025 Commonwealth Short Story Prize. Her debut novel New Girl in Little Cove won the 2022 Rakuten Kobo Emerging Writer Award (Romance). Her novella-in-flash The Neverlands won Best Novella in the 2020 Saboteur Awards. 'Postpartum' was first published in Inside the Bell Jar: We Run Through the Dark Together - A Mental Health Anthology in 2018.

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bathflashaward.bsky.social
@bathflashaward.bsky.social

Enter today Sun 7th June ! Deadline midnight. Last chance to submit a story of up to 300 words. £1000 top prize. Double and triple entries reduced Plus a chance for 3 writers to win 3 free entries for next time! www.bathflashfictionaward.com/2026/06/last...

bathflashfictionaward.comLast Day to enter the 33rd Award!It’s the final day for last minute writers! Thank you to everyone who’s entered already and for those who have plans to enter today, Sunday 7th June. At the time of posting this (12.01 …

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Diane Simmons
@scooterwriter.bsky.social

Lovely to be on here with my pal @downith.bsky.social — if she’d not been silly & moved back to Canada, she would have been round my house for lunch today with lots of other lovely people celebrating 🥲

V. Press@vpresslit.bsky.social

Review news & hot new titles! V. Press summer news & highlights! vpresspoetry.blogspot.com @downith.bsky.social @bethosmond.bsky.social @scooterwriter.bsky.social

Damhnait Monaghan 🇨🇦🇮🇪
@downith.bsky.social

A fabulous decade of publications. I especially love Flash Fiction February!

Fictive Dream@fictivedream.bsky.social

June marks the 10th year of Fictive Dream. Our sincere thanks to all who have supported us as #authors #readers #artists and #editors. To celebrate the occasion please enjoy our marvellous selection of forthcoming #fiction. Thank you to everyone for being a part of this wonderful journey.

Damhnait Monaghan 🇨🇦🇮🇪
@downith.bsky.social

Very happy that ‘The Neverlands’ is back with a third print run after being out of print. ☘️☘️☘️

V. Press@vpresslit.bsky.social

Now in stock & available to pre-order – a new bound version of The Neverlands by Damhnait Monaghan @downith.bsky.social – a flash fiction novella that is very raw and very real! vpresspoetry.blogspot.com/p/the-neverl...

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National Flash Fiction Day
@natflashfictionday.bsky.social

Edited by the wonderful @karjon.bsky.social & @sharontelfer.bsky.social

National Flash Fiction Day@natflashfictionday.bsky.social

We’re thrilled to introduce the title & cover of our 2026 anthology which is now available to pre-order from our bookshop. The cover is by our artist-in-residence @joannacampbell.bsky.social & the title is taken from a flash from @rachaeldunlop.com www.nationalflashfictionday.co.uk/index.php/ne...

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Karen Jones
@karjon.bsky.social

Gorgeous cover from @joannacampbell.bsky.social and fabulous title from @rachaeldunlop.com brilliant story. Can't wait for everyone to read this year's anthology and many thanks to @sharontelfer.bsky.social for being such an excellent co-editor.

National Flash Fiction Day@natflashfictionday.bsky.social

We’re thrilled to introduce the title & cover of our 2026 anthology which is now available to pre-order from our bookshop. The cover is by our artist-in-residence @joannacampbell.bsky.social & the title is taken from a flash from @rachaeldunlop.com www.nationalflashfictionday.co.uk/index.php/ne...